1.   Alberto Fujimori was elected Peruvian president because he was perceived to be a defender of the public welfare.

2.   Cuban President Fidel Castro said he would accept the rebels if Fujimori asked, and the two met in a surprise visit by the Peruvian president this week.

3.   He has probably built more schools, roads and health clinics to serve the poor than every other Peruvian president combined.

4.   He was speaking of the Peruvian president, Alberto Fujimori.

5.   Opinion polls suggest that the Peruvian president might well have won a clean, uncontested election this year again, although by a much narrower margin.

6.   The bad news is that a hard-nosed Peruvian president has, so far, been unyielding.

7.   The Peruvian president, Alberto K. Fujimori, has still not made any public comment about the reported effort to dig the tunnels.

8.   The Peruvian president said any retrial would open the door to the freeing of hundreds of terrorists and would endanger security.

9.   The Peruvian president also appeared to be taking the offensive in what many here describe as an image contest waged by the rebels.

10.   The Peruvian president, who is keeping his strategy to himself and perhaps a few advisers, alternated between offering an olive branch and sharply condemning terrorism.